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November 2015

November 30, 2015
Pope Francis paid a brief visit this morning to  the Grand Mosque of Koudoukou in...
November 29, 2015
Earlier today, Aleteia posted this very good overview on the tragic death of Officer Garrett...
November 29, 2015
Boom! The vocation keeps growing. A preview of yesterday's big event: During the Mass of...
November 29, 2015
From The Boston Globe:  The Archdiocese of Boston has hired a top Democratic consultant to...
November 29, 2015
Advent brings back, once again, this ancient hymn—and some of the controversy surrounding it. When...
November 29, 2015
This is a great story that can teach any priest, and any parish, how to...
November 28, 2015
Since we were traveling, my wife and I spent the first Sunday of Advent away from...
November 28, 2015
Now for something completely different: a woman whose house just screams "Christmas." Meet Tracy Dyke:...
November 28, 2015
Remarkable and inspiring, via the BBC:  For more than 17 years, a Catholic nun named...
November 27, 2015
Everything you need to know about "The Peanuts Movie" is contained in its first shot...
November 27, 2015
From The Denver Post:  At least three police officers and multiple civilians have been injured...
November 27, 2015
By now, you may have heard the news:  A day after he was widely rebuked...
November 27, 2015
From AP:  El Salvador’s Roman Catholic Church announced Thursday it has suspended a well-known priest,...
November 27, 2015
From VIS:  In the sports field of the St. Mary School, belonging to the archdiocese...
November 27, 2015
From The Wall Street Journal, evidence that Catholic education is on the rebound: At first...
November 26, 2015
A glimpse at an upcoming diaconate ordination in Scranton, from The Wilkes Barre Times Leader: ...
November 26, 2015
I suspect most Catholics don’t know the name Martin Rinkart. But this Lutheran deacon left...
November 26, 2015
Awesome:  The debate about resettling Syrian refugees has some people asking, “Why don’t we use...
November 26, 2015
From KUTV:  The Salt Lake Catholic Diocese has started an investigation into what is being...
November 25, 2015
From The New York Times comes this update to a story I first posted Monday: The...
November 25, 2015
Neither John Corapi nor the people at his religious order, Society of Our Lady of...
November 25, 2015
Details:  First of all, it appears that Fr. Federico Lombardi, who has headed the Holy...
November 25, 2015
From The Catholic Sun in Phoenix:  Carla Sperry never expected to be looked at as an...
November 25, 2015
From the vault, here's my Thanksgiving homily from 2009: A lot of us know the...
November 24, 2015
From The Wall Street Journal, a glimpse at what awaits the pope on his visit...
November 24, 2015
A great idea that shows diakonia in action, via KPCC in California: The push by evangelists...
November 24, 2015
What??? Details:  Following a tradition of the past five decades, a Nativity scene featuring life-size...
November 24, 2015
Rebecca Frech took it upon herself to visit a neighbor in Dallas: a mother who...
November 24, 2015
Details: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, 63, as Ordinary of...
November 23, 2015
Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn serves as pastor of Holy Child Jesus Parish in...
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